Erin Doom is an Italian author whose debut novel Fabbricante di lacrime (soon to be published as The Maker of Tears, 2024)shot to the top of the charts in 2022 and has since sold over half a million copies. Her second and third novels, Nel modo in cui cade la neve (The Way the Snow Falls, 2022) and Stigma (2023),are also bestsellers. Doom studied Law and currently resides in Italy.